Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-21
NEWS OF 'gsEE Bay.

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There has been no notable charge 10 tue
Crown Princes condition.
A suit of citizen'e clothes was smuggied
to Mr.. O'Brien in Tnllamore jail.
Two victims of leprosy-a widow and her
Young daughter-have been discovered in
Philadelphia.
It is reported that Prince Bismarck sue
ceeded in persusdipg the Car to cultivate
core friendly relations with Germany.
Nins Van Zaadt is believed to bo dying
Food has not pa ,sed her lips since her proxy
husband, August Spies. persisted on the Ga;
lows.
No trouble occurred in Trafalgar Sqnare,
Lrndon, yesterday. Thousands OF cans'ables
were in attendance. who seemed to aSo the
socialists.
There were one hundred a"d lfiy.six
deaths in Baltimore last week. an increase
Of thirteen over the corresponding week Of
last year.
There have been 10 new ca-es offever and
no deaths in Tampa Fla The doctors and
NURSES s,e going home, and the epidemic is
about ended.
Hall, under sentence of death in Philadel
phia for the murder Of Lillian Rivers. Is en-
deavoring to cheat the galows by abstain
ing from food.
Tho boiler in ". Il. Wilson & Co.'S. saw
mill, at Prescott. Az, exploded Saturday,
killing the proprietor, FIVE woikmen, and
iujuliDg number Of others.
Mil!er's livery stable, in Chicago, was
burned Saturday night, with twenty five
horses. and Mrs. Miller was seriously in
;r.a,I Ia, loo rir r f.c n, o caron n. ory window
Alb CHOW, Chnaman. wss hanged ct
Lyttop, B c., Friday. He cried during the
preparations for the hanging, bni when the
time came be rolled cigarette and died
game.
a corps OF civil engineers will sail from
New York for GreytowD, Nicaragua, on Sat
urday to complete the surveys and make
the final axial location of the intorcceanic
canal route.
Tt Yale. Princeton football match was
played Saturday in cold rsin and on
muddy field partly covered with water.
Princeton was beaten all rounds, the score
being Yale II, Princeton 0.
An international six days 60 as you please
race was Ftarted III Phladelrt.ia shortly
after midnight LAST plight. Among the well
known competitors are Littlewood, the
English champion Hart, the colored cham
pion Strokel the Austrian Vim! and More
mac.
The men employed in the colliefy Of
Mitchell & Shepp, Tamaqua. Pc, who have
been on strike, resumed work Saturday.
Friday evening as party Of minere were
returning from work they were fired Upon
from ambush with shotguns, and one of them
was severely wounded.
The colored stableman Beverly jones,
convicted in Washington some dsys ago ct
manslanghter in killing Robert B Morris by
driving an umbrella point through his eye
into tho brain. was on Saturday sentenced
to pay flee of 500 and to be imprisoned
six gears in the Albany penitentiary.
In Auburn, Il. Y. on Saturday night, the
Jury in tho trial of Blind Patterson,
charged with defraudiug tbs government
out of a $4,000 pension, came into court
and reported disagreement. They wero
sent back, and at 2:15 o'clock yesterday
morning, upon announcing that they could
not agree, were discharged.
In the French chamber OF deputies on
Saturday the members of the extreme left
brought up their motion 10 interpola;e the
government on it's domestic policy. The
was opposed by Premier Rouvier, who pro.
posed to adjourn the debate until the 9th
inst. The cabinets proposal was, however.
rejected by a votd of 32S to 2+2. whereppon
NJ. Rouvler announced the resignation of
the cabinet
Tho CONTRACT between the city OF Chicago
aud Andrew Onderdonk. OF Now York, the
lowest bidder for the construction Of the
new submarine water works Tunnel under
the lake has been formally executed The
new tunnel is to be eight feet in diameter,
and will extend from the South Side lake
front, distance of four miles into The lake, !
where pure water is deemed certainty.
The second auditor of the Treasury has
submitted to the Secretary his report, which |
contains statement ofthe accounts audited !
~ his Office. The report ststes that the in I
crease in the number of claims for arrears
Of pay and bounty presented during the last /
seven years is sufficiently remarkable to call t
ior special notice. and serves to explain the
act that twenty two years after the close of
he war of 1876 there are upward of42 600
claims awaiting adjudication.
Mr. BARBoUR's REpLY.-Hon. John, & P.-bo,-